How to Migrate to Reclaim.ai After Clockwise Shutdown: A Comparison Guide with Motion

The End of an Era: Why Clockwise Shut Down

Clockwise was once a benchmark product in the AI calendar tools space, protecting focus time and automatically adjusting meeting schedules for teams at companies like Uber, Netflix, and Atlassian. The product officially ceased operations on March 27, 2026. The Clockwise team joined Salesforce to work on the Agentforce project. Salesforce publicly stated that it did not acquire the Clockwise product or technology, so the product found no new owner—it simply disappeared.

If your calendar once relied on Clockwise, the impact is already apparent: focus time blocks are no longer protected, flexible meetings remain in place, and all old scheduling links have stopped working. Clockwise's shutdown FAQ explicitly states that its data was deleted after the service ended. Users who didn't export their settings in advance must rebuild everything manually. Additionally, Clockwise's "Smart Hold" events (including focus time, travel time, meeting gaps, and synced personal events) have been removed from calendars.

Clockwise's core technology was its calendar optimization algorithm: it didn't just place events into free slots, but dynamically moved "flexible meetings" multiple times throughout the week by factoring in constraints such as meeting priority, participant preferences, travel duration, and cross-timezone limitations, thereby carving out continuous focus time blocks for each person. "Flexible Meetings" refer to meetings whose organizers allow the system to automatically reschedule them; Clockwise treated these meetings as variables while treating external hard meetings and personal events as fixed constraints. This essentially models the scheduling problem as constraint satisfaction optimization: finding a globally optimal solution under the premise that hard constraints must be satisfied and soft constraints are optimized as much as possible. This optimizer-centric approach is precisely what distinguished it from ordinary calendar plugins, and it also explains why, after its shutdown, users lost not just a tool but an entire automated rescheduling logic.

"Smart Hold" was another key Clockwise concept, referring to events the system reserved on your calendar that didn't actually occupy your real time—such as time blocks held for focus, travel, meeting gaps, or synced personal schedules. Its function was "soft holding": when others tried to schedule meetings during these periods, the system could automatically yield, while its own flexible time blocks would switch from "free" to "busy" as the weekly schedule filled up. Therefore, after Clockwise shut down and these holds were removed, users immediately felt their calendars suddenly "empty out" and meetings start crowding each other. Understanding this mechanism helps determine how corresponding features like focus time and buffer time should be reconfigured after migrating to Reclaim.

Who Did Clockwise Officially Recommend?

In its shutdown FAQ, Clockwise directly recommended Reclaim. The company stated it partnered with Reclaim to "provide a smooth transition" and advised users to immediately migrate their scheduling links to "services like Reclaim."

Reclaim's help center disclosed partnership details: paid Clockwise users could get price matching with their invoices, onboarding webinars were held daily throughout March, and larger teams received priority setup assistance. These offers were designed around the shutdown event, and users should visit reclaim.ai to confirm whether they are still valid.

Clockwise and Reclaim were direct competitors for years, and the two products' core philosophies are highly aligned. The feature mapping is nearly one-to-one:

Clockwise Feature	Reclaim Equivalent
Focus Time	Focus Time + Habits
Flexible Meetings	Smart Meetings
Scheduling Links	Scheduling Links
Personal Calendar Sync	Calendar Sync
Meeting Gaps/Travel Time	Buffers & Travel Time
Team Analytics	People/Time Tracking Analytics

Reclaim goes further in some areas. It can also schedule tasks, supporting integrations with Asana, Todoist, Linear, Jira, and ClickUp. Recurring activities are handled as "Habits." Scheduling links can connect to CRM systems via webhooks.

"Scheduling Link" refers to a public booking page that allows others to book meetings based on your availability, similar to Calendly. Its difference from calendar optimization lies in this: scheduling links solve "how others pick times," while focus time and smart meetings solve "how the system arranges time for you." The two often share the same set of availability rules, so they must be updated together during migration—otherwise external partners will still click on expired old links.

By comparison, Reclaim's task integrations (Asana, Todoist, Linear, Jira, ClickUp, etc.) mean it doesn't just schedule meetings—it can also convert tasks themselves into calendar time blocks, the so-called "task time blocks." When task deadlines or priorities change, these time blocks are automatically rescheduled, which shares some logic with Motion's planning approach. The difference is that Reclaim remains calendar-centric, while Motion is project- and task-centric. Understanding this distinction helps users choose the option that better fits their working style.

Eight Steps to Complete Migration Within an Hour

Step One: Clean up remnants. Search your calendar for leftover Clockwise events and recurring holds. Reclaim's FAQ notes that flexible meetings organized by others may still appear—you'll need to ask organizers to remove Clockwise from those events.

Step Two: Sign up with your work calendar. Reclaim supports Google Calendar and Outlook. Use your work account so the tool can see your real meeting load. A free plan is available to get started.

Step Three: Set working hours and meeting hours first. Clockwise used these parameters to determine what could be moved. In Reclaim, they control where focus time, habits, and smart meetings land. This is the first priority.

Step Four: Rebuild focus time. Set a weekly target (e.g., 10 to 15 hours) and choose the level of protection strictness. Reclaim's booked flexible time blocks show as "free" when there's room and automatically switch to "busy" as the week fills up—the core behavior matches Clockwise.

Step Five: Convert recurring one-on-ones and team syncs into Smart Meetings. This replaces the Flexible Meetings feature. Reclaim finds the best time for everyone and automatically reschedules when conflicts arise.

Step Six: Replace scheduling links. Create new Reclaim scheduling links and update everywhere old Clockwise links appear: email signatures, documents, websites, and Slack profiles.

Step Seven: Add buffers and calendar sync. Enable decompression time after meetings and travel time. If you use a personal calendar, connect it so personal events block work time without exposing details.

Step Eight: Roll out to your team. Reclaim's value grows as team members join, because Smart Meetings can work around everyone's habits and focus time. Start with one team, then expand.

Is Motion Right for You?

Motion is another frequently mentioned name, but it's a different type of product. Clockwise was a team-oriented calendar optimizer, while Motion is closer to an AI project and task manager that also schedules your day. It plans tasks based on deadlines, rebuilds schedules as priorities change, and in recent years has added documents, workflows, and "AI employees."

Recommendations:

• Choose Reclaim: If what you miss is Clockwise itself—protected focus time, automatically moved meetings, team scheduling, and a calendar that works with your existing task tools. It also has a free plan.
• Choose Motion: If you're willing to replace your task manager along with it and don't mind migrating project work into Motion. It suits those who want a unified system to plan their entire day.

On pricing, both tools' plans change frequently. Generally, Reclaim has a free tier and per-user paid plans, with entry-level costs lower than Motion. Motion primarily offers paid plans plus trials, with higher per-seat costs. Before rolling out to a team, be sure to check reclaim.ai/pricing and usemotion.com/pricing for the latest prices.

From a product positioning standpoint, Reclaim is a calendar-first tool—its core asset remains your work calendar, with tasks, habits, and buffers all serving as inputs for the calendar; Motion is a project-first tool—its core assets are tasks and project boards, with the calendar merely a visualization layer for its planning results. Therefore, the migration costs differ: moving from Clockwise to Reclaim is essentially feature mapping, with your existing Google/Outlook calendar and meeting habits largely unchanged; moving to Motion requires relocating your entire task management workflow, and team collaboration methods may change accordingly.

For teams already dependent on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, Reclaim is less intrusive because it directly reads and writes your existing calendar without requiring changes to your task tools; Motion is better suited for individuals or small teams willing to unify "tasks—projects—schedules" in one system. If your team is large, meeting-intensive, and involves cross-timezone collaboration, prioritize Reclaim's calendar optimization capabilities; if your team is primarily project-delivery focused with relatively manageable meetings, Motion's project planning advantages become more apparent.

Key Takeaways

Clockwise has shut down and its data deleted, but rebuilding your configuration takes about an hour. If you want to restore the Clockwise experience with minimal changes, Reclaim is the tool officially recommended by Clockwise, with nearly one-to-one feature mapping. If you're ready to rethink how you plan work, Motion is worth trying.

One-line Summary

Clockwise shut down and deleted data, officially recommending Reclaim; migration takes about an hour, and Motion is another option.

Paragraph Summary

Clockwise shut down on March 27, 2026, its data deleted, and the team joined Salesforce to work on Agentforce; the product was not acquired. It officially recommended users migrate to Reclaim, which maps nearly one-to-one with Clockwise: focus time, flexible meetings, scheduling links, calendar sync, buffers and travel time, and team analytics all have equivalents, plus additional task integrations and webhooks. The article provides an eight-step migration method completable in about an hour: clean up remnants, sign up with your work calendar, set working hours and meeting hours first, rebuild focus time, convert recurring meetings to smart meetings, replace scheduling links, add buffers and calendar sync, then roll out to your team. The other option, Motion, leans more toward an AI project and task manager, suited for users willing to replace their task system; Reclaim is better for those wanting to restore their original experience with minimal changes, and it has a free plan with lower entry costs.